SOLUTION: An ornamental spherical ball made of bronze has an outer diameter of 1.7m and a uniform thickness of 12cm. If bronze weighs 8.5 gm/cm^3, find the weight of the ball.

Question 1189059: An ornamental spherical ball made of bronze has an outer diameter of 1.7m and a uniform thickness of 12cm. If bronze weighs 8.5 gm/cm^3, find the weight of the ball.
Answer by ikleyn(52781) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The volume of the metal is the difference of the volumes of the two spheres, so you can easy calculate it.

As soon as you get the metal volume, multiply it by the given metal density.

Happy calculations (!)

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